No person has the power to have everything they want, but i… - Seneca

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No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – A.D. 65), often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist. He was the son of Seneca the Elder.

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Native Name: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Alternative Names: Seneca the Younger • the Younger Seneca • Lucio Anneo Seneca • Annaeus Seneca • Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor • Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior • L. Annæus Seneca • Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger

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This is the worst trait of minds rendered arrogant by prosperity, they hate those whom they have injured.

errant consilia nostra, quia non habent quo derigantur; ignoranti quem portum petat nullus suus ventus est.

Irascetur aliquis: tu contra beneficiis prouoca; cadit statim simultas ab altera parte deserta; nisi paria non pugnant.

No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have, and to cheerfully put to good use wh… - Seneca

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